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St Patrick's Day abroad

Mon 17 Mar 2014

A bagpiper marches in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade along Fifth Ave in Manhattan, New York. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images.

Members of the FDNY march along 5th avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York.
Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny marches up 5th avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters.

Demonstrators protest in New York amid concerns that organisers excluded gay groups from the parade. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters.

A man dressed as a leprechaun smiles as he stands beside the dyed green Chicago River during St Patrick's Day celebrations in Chicago. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters

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A girl waves an Irish flag at the 8th annual St Patrick's Day celebrations in Shanghai.

Irish dancers get ready for the London parade. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

Participants get ready at the start of the St Patrick's Day parade in central London. Photograph: Laura Lean/PA Wire

Ciaran, aged 10, dressed as a member of the Garda, poses for a photograph before the St Patrick's Day parade in central London. Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

A man wearing shamrock-shaped glasses takes part in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Munich, Germany. Photograph: Tobias Hase/EPA

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Peachy Queen poses from the back of a bus, and prepares to march in the St Patrick's day parade on behalf of all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for the first time in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Don Arnold/Getty Images

Martin Collyer and Melody O'Donoghue (originally from Cork) with their son Jim Collyer, with daughter Rose on a float in the background at the parade in Sydney.